John D. Porcari | |
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Deputy Secretary of Transportation | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office June 1, 2009 |
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Preceded by | Thomas J. Barrett |
Maryland Secretary of Transportation | |
In office January 17, 2007 – June 1, 2009 |
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Preceded by | Robert L. Flanagan |
Succeeded by | Beverley K. Swaim-Staley (acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | December 14, 1958 Rochester, New York |
Political party | Democratic |
John D. Porcari (born December 14, 1958, in Rochester, New York) is the current United States Deputy Secretary of Transportation. He was nominated by the Obama administration in April 2009 and confirmed by the Senate on May 21, 2009.[1]
Porcari previously served as the Deputy Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation in 1997 and 1998. He subsequently served as the Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation on two separate occasions: first between January 1999 and January 2003 for the administration of Governor Parris Glendening, and then again from January 2007 to June 2009 for the administration of Governor Martin O'Malley.
Porcari holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Dayton and a Master of Public Administration degree from the State University of New York at Albany.